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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






2. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






3. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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4. Closed syllable






5. Multisensory Structured Language






6. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






7. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






8. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






9. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






10. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






11. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






12. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






13. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






14. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






15. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






16. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






17. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






18. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






19. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






20. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






21. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






22. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






23. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






24. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






25. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






26. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






27. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






28. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






29. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






30. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






31. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






32. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






33. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






34. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






35. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






36. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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37. Academic Language Therapy Association






38. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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39. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






40. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






41. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






42. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






43. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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44. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






45. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






46. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






47. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






48. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






49. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






50. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.